Saint Kieran's Catholic Church — Shannonbridge

Detached seven-bay double-height Catholic church, dated 1965, on a rectangular plan comprising six-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height apse (east) on a half-octagonal plan. Pitched slate roof; half-octagonal slate roof (east), clay ridge tiles with Cross finials to apexes, and cast-aluminium rainwater goods on concrete eaves with cast-aluminium downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Shouldered curvilinear-headed window openings with concrete sills, and rendered surrounds with hood mouldings framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass panels. Square-headed window openings (east) with concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening (west) with concrete flagged step, rendered surround including block-and-start voussoirs with hood moulding centred on panelled keystone framing diagonal timber boarded double doors. Cusped lancet window opening in tripartite arrangement (gable) with concrete sill, and rendered block-and-start surround framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass panels. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with timber boarded double doors; full-height interior open into roof with choir gallery below stained glass "West Window", central aisle between timber pews, grouped stations between stained glass windows, exposed collared timber roof construction with wind braced rafters to timber boarded ceiling on cornice, and carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (east) with elliptical-headed chancel arch framing pillared altar. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with roughcast boundary wall to perimeter having battlemented coping.